A Revolution is the Solution
Totally PWNED!
DAAAAAMNNNNNNNN He got served!!! (Initiate Voltron dance sequence)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7...h?
v=70nS8y2Gdaw
without a doubt, one of the best pieces of total ownage i have ever seen. completely fucking awesome.
Now THAT'S hardcore.
Yep, he was pwn3d by the ghost. Nice work!
Good going that man 
Owned totally lol
That's awesome man!
Congratulations on making it to Slashdot's front page.
I'm glad you called it a lame batch file instead of a virus like Slashdot did. The guy who made it... I mean it's so lame... a GameMaker game plus a few registry entries and an uninstaller that breaks the "virus"... it doesn't deserve to be called a virus, even if it DID replicate itself (a necessary component of any virus). At least he could have deleted random registry keys or hard disk files or something. Or at least made the game WORK.
I figured all of this out from the other links from Slashdot, but this is amusing me enough I might install the "virus" inside of a VM just to check it out. I also have a GameMaker decompiler (it's old though) I can try running the EXE through to take a peek at the insides.
You made Slashdot! Congrats!
Dude, I've gotta hand it to you. His internet retirement manifesto had to make it all worth it. Total pwnage, if I was a hacker attacker you would be my god.
P.S. Please don't use this comment to track me down! :D
One other piece of useful information you didn't mention. According to his Blackplanet entry, his astrological sign is Pisces. If this is accurate, you know his birthday is between February 20 to March 20. Many forum sites allow you to enter your birthday, for "happy birthday" notifications, so this could be used as a cross-reference. If you searched his forum conversations during this time, you might even see a "hey, happy birthday dood" post from a friend, which would confirm his exact birth date.
I like this very much, and I appreciate your dedication to kicking ass all over cyberspace.
But the fact that this guy could be so easily located indicates not too crafty or clever of a criminal.
I sometimes kick myself for having, well, two main Internet identities that I use--one professional, using my real name, and one that's easily linked to multiple email addresses, which I rarely check. And I've done a poor job keeping them separate; a lazy googler could figure out one from the other.
But it's okay, because I'm only embarassed that I often drunkenly say silly things on the Internet. I'm not a criminal.
You're missing out on the masterminds! Where are the criminal devils of infinite repose who control cyberspace with their 19 YouTube IDs and masterful use of anonymous proxies??!
I will know you have not protected me when someone hacks my weakass arsenal of outdated from-craigslist computers, keylogs my password to crappyfreeporn.com, and basically does damage to, well, nothing.
So it's okay, I guess. But you know I could totally be a kickass crax0r. You'd never get me.
Great work - online "gangstas" like him need to be exposed for the cowards they really are, hiding behind monitors. He obviously couldn't handle life in the Bronx, and now he can't handle the suburban life in... Hartford, CT? HA!
Surely awesome. A good read. Thanks for taking the time.
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Was this really worth a gigantic write up? You tracked down some punk-ass dumb enough to use his handle every-damn-where, who wrote a batch file and you wrote a bible. Why? Get rid of this shit. It makes you look soft.
"Was this really worth a gigantic write up? You tracked down some punk-ass dumb enough to use his handle every-damn-where, who wrote a batch file and you wrote a bible. Why?"
Because he released numerous variants of these infections, bundling them with fake games (complete with pointless install screens) and programs using a distribution method based around socially engineering people via blogs, forums and video sharing sites such as youtube, and it took considerable time and effort to have all the rogue accounts shut down - Google had to intervene directly. He also created a website designed to harvest IP addresses (in fact, he asks you to fill your IP address in as your password) to spam messages across Myspace / forums (in the form of image spam whose download location included the words "download bait", nice touch). Those messages would then redirect you to rogue antispyware installs, which have a history of being involved in more malicious bundles - depending on the product or products installed, more malware files could be downloaded onto the PC. It's entirely possible given the evidence on display that he was signed up to one of these affiliate deals and was trying to make some money via these hijacks.
However you look at it, he had a sophisticated distribution network of rogue files spanning a range of locations from video sharing sites to blogs to forums to Myspace, with a collection of free web hosts inbetween. Leaving his contact information all over the place was definitely stupid, but he knew exactly what he was doing in terms of how to go about infecting people.
....or is the alternative to simply find something like this and forget about it and let them carry on doing what they're doing?
Sure, he left his information everywhere.
But until I actually looked at it and put it together, who else had made use of it?
There are plenty of federal offenses in there. If the Hartford police won't take action, file a complaint with the FBI's computer crimes task force.
http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/c...t/
cyberhome.htm
Nice work. We have to do what we can to keep down people who want to cause grief for others. Computer cause enough frustratin to start with without people doing evil on purpose. You are setting a good example. Namaste
I live near Hartford that place is not very friendly , at one point we had a higher murder rate than Detroit, chances are, the police have better things to do, but wow, I gotta put it... That guy must have felt fear in being tracked down like that. ALmost kind of cyber stalker creepy
Thanks for the info. I'd hardly liken it to "cyber stalking", though. All of the information was publicly available with great big "I am here" flashing lights all over it.
Anyone researching infection files will typically gather up most of this kind of info as they look into the files history anyway, but usually the trail goes cold halfway through.
THANK YOU!!!
The coolest part was his admission and the fact he seemed real in his regret.
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